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Anyone else some what nervous about how Jack's game will be when he finally returns? I'm thinking in terms of follow on injuries and that he has lost a whole season in a crucial time of his development. Lord knows Ramsey was looking promising but has looked utter s.hite since his return from a serious injury.

I understand you don't lose your ability over night, but it's just a worry I think. The plus side is he has age on his side and is definitely not going to the Olympics now.

Albert Einstein once said: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

I think Ramsey's and Wilshere's injuries are two different type but I still think playing in Olympics would have been a golden opportunity to come back to competitive football, definitely it's not expected him to be selected or play in such important tournament as Euro where as Olympics is much lighter version of 7 matches tournament to play till final, lots of younger good players will take the opportunity to grow from countries like Spain, Brasil, Senegal, Mexico, Uruguay etc.

BootyDaddyAnyone else some what nervous about how Jack's game will be when he finally returns? I'm thinking in terms of follow on injuries and that he has lost a whole season in a crucial time of his development. Lord knows Ramsey was looking promising but has looked utter s.hite since his return from a serious injury.
I understand you don't lose your ability over night, but it's just a worry I think. The plus side is he has age on his side and is definitely not going to the Olympics now.

Jack_is_the_truthits got nothing to do with his injury its all about his confidence
ramsey isnt playing badly becasue of his injury, he wasnt playing badly at the start of the season, he wasnt playing badly alonside jack at the end of last season

a lot has been lumped on his shoulders that he wasnt ready for is all, so doubts have started to set in

qia

ares really? ramsey was one alot more impressive then wilshire pre injury, this guy was 18 and basically forced his way into the team, i dint watch gs vid but i dont need to ive watched ramsey from early hes a very talented player

You can make anyone look brilliant on youtube. Half those clips show Ramsey doing well to move past a player and then it cuts away. You don't see him then spend half an hour wondering what to do with the ball before giving it away after about twenty touches.

Ramsey has quality don't get me wrong, but only given time and space. He needs players alongside him to do that; To create the room for him to operate.

Right now though his confidence is gone he needs a break from the team.

Ramsey was terrible most of the time pre-injury, especially the game where he was injured in. Also, anyone remember a worse performance than the one he put in away at Wolves or Cardiff? Made me cringe.

Wenger's big error was to move from building (or receiving) teams that combined physical strength and aggression with flair, to teams that tried to be Barcelona. Full of young, short, nimble but brittle little players. Luckily it looks like this has changed with mature guys like mert, arteta and podolski in.

In the transfer market, he gets a lot of stuff wrong and tends to give players too much time to prove themselves when they're fundamentally shite (Denilson) but he also gets it spectacularly right most of the time. He continues to be one of the best in the world, probably ever, at spotting potential and developing it into class. Now sometimes he waits too long, but not usually. Look at Kos, Ox, Ryo etc. no other big club manager in the country can do that.

The club's problem is not being able to compete with any comparable clubs in the transfer market. But if we didn't have Wenger we'd be in a much worse position. The likes of Mancini, mourinho etc can't do what they do on budgets.

I wouldn't question his commitment either (unlike the board). Yeah he's stubborn but he lives and breathes Arsenal. And it's pretty silly to say the current side lack motivation.

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